Cheryl...it's lovely that you got such a fantastic new camera, although I thought the pictures you have been taking were already marvelous...but I must agree, I love the new photos even better...good luck and have a lot of fun shooting a whole new group of photos this summer.

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Wow! Eye-popping!! As a fan of blurry backgrounds, I love the shallow apertures you're using, and the sharpness of the subject! Hans is certainly right about the one of your daughter- that one deserves to be framed and shown off.

I have the "cousin" of the T1i, the Rebel XTi. Awesome, awesome camera!!

The lens was highly recommended by my brother-in-law, who has quite a lot of them and is an outstanding amateur photographer. It's his favorite general purpose lens too.

Definitely it's more than meeting my needs for now, though I can see getting a dedicated macro lens and telephoto lens down the road. For now I need to work on learning all the manual controls on the camera, what settings to change to get the effect I want.